Galerie Caroline O'Breen

Technique: Wet-plate collodion on black aluminium plate

Size: 50 x 40 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist, Certificate provided

Edition: Total of 3

Price range: € 2.000 - € 4.000

Status: for sale

REVO 02, 2024

The series REVO narrates the fall of the Kodak company following the upheaval caused by digital technology in the 2000s. The images, sourced from YouTube, depict the public collapse of buildings destroyed and filmed by factory workers using the digital cameras of that era. The digital artifacts caused by the low resolution of this emerging technology merge with the chemical rendering of the prints made using the wet collodion process. This old photographic technique was itself rendered obsolete by Kodak film at the end of the 19th century, which ushered photography into the industrial age. REVO examines the determined obsolescence of imaging technologies and seeks to reconcile them by materializing works with hybrid properties. Standing under a radiant sun, the public spectacle of the factory's destruction was described by the Kodak group with a phrase that inspired the project's title: "What a nice day for a revolution."